{"id":427696,"date":"2021-12-31T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=427696"},"modified":"2021-12-31T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:04:05","slug":"android-versus-ios-what-happened-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/427696-android-versus-ios-what-happened-in-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Android versus iOS \u2014 What happened in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s mobile operating system Android managed to hold its own in 2021 against Apple’s iOS after seeing a considerable decline in 2020, according to estimated market share data from the GlobalStats StatCounter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of November 2021, Android had captured around 70.74% of the mobile OS market share worldwide, maintaining its position as the world’s leading mobile operating system.<\/p>\n

This was only a slight decline from the 71.18% it held in November 2021.<\/p>\n

During the same period, iOS saw a slight uptick in market share \u2014 from around 28.19% to 28.54%.<\/p>\n

While that might seem like a win in Apple’s book, it was a significant slowdown in the migration of Android customers to iOS compared to a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Between November 2019 and November 2020, Android market share declined from 75.82% to 71.18%, while iOS climbed from 22.9% to 28.19%.<\/p>\n

One possible factor in 2021 might be that Apple struggled to deliver as many iPhone 13 models as it had planned.<\/p>\n

Multiple reports suggested<\/strong><\/a> that the company cut production on its latest flagship smartphone range by millions due to the global chip shortage.<\/p>\n

The shortage has been so severe that Nikkei claimed<\/strong><\/a> Apple slowed down iPad tablets production to allocate more components to the iPhone 13.<\/p>\n

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Overall, Android is still the dominant mobile OS in the market.<\/p>\n

Its availability on a broader range of smartphone models at various price points makes this easy to understand.<\/p>\n

Apple does not compete at the lower end of the market and barely offers models in the mid-range.<\/p>\n

These two segments account for the vast majority of smartphones sold worldwide.<\/p>\n

But 2022 could see the Cupertino-based giant breathe up Google’s neck again with the expected release of the budget-oriented iPhone 3 SE.<\/p>\n

A report from<\/strong> Reuters<\/strong><\/a> has claimed that this model, which will likely be Apple’s cheapest 5G smartphone yet, could lure nearly 1.4 billion low-to-mid-end Android smartphone users, in addition to 300 million existing Apple users.<\/p>\n

The market share of other mobile OSs in the world continued to shrink in 2021, accounting for less than 1% of the total market.<\/p>\n

The table and chart below show the global market share of the most popular mobile operating systems as of November 2021.<\/p>\n

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Mobile OS Share \u2013 November 2021<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Android<\/td>\n70.74%<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS<\/td>\n28.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samsung<\/td>\n0.38%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KaiOS<\/td>\n0.14%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unknown<\/td>\n0.13%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nokia Unknown<\/td>\n0.12%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now read: Google launches Android12L beta<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is how Google’s Android fared against Apple’s iOS and other mobile operating systems in 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":427700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,605,167,35,691,49341,1361],"class_list":["post-427696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-mobile-operating-systems","tag-smartphones-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428534,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427696\/revisions\/428534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}